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"Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Often, when they spoke of Paris, she would murmur: "Ah! How happy we'd be, living there!" "Aren't we happy here?" the young would softly ask, passing his hand over her hair." - Gustave Flaubert